Regan and I are going to give up staying the weekend in Berlin for this thing, and I will be straight off the plane only hours before. So none of you locals have an excuse not to be there. ;-) Plus Sjoen will be there. For real, I saw his non refundable ticket.

Too bad I live abroad...I would have been pleased to meet ToyBoxDX members.

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I'm currently searching for a brand new perfect Grendizer GA 37 DX or its Shogun Warriors equivalent, Goldorak. Would pay an insanely tremendous price for it...MP me if you have it.

I invite from Jonathan and watched the video from the 2010 summit. I was wondering if it was mandatory that you have to bring robots? Me and my co-creator James Biggie have a concept called Robot God Akamatsu, which is being represented by KTG : [www.killingthegrizzly.com]
We also have a Zazzle Store : [www.zazzle.com]
I've also done sketch cards for the Voltron card set and the Voltron Art Book.
The summit looks like a lot fun and I can't wait to get more info about it.
Thanks

Heh...I wasn't playing in that other thread--well...I wasn't actually gonna cyber-stalk you...but I was gonna drop you a line introducing me and the heads on this board. Jon beat me to it!

Well, first of all, ain't nothing mandatory...except maybe an appetite...and pants. By all means, though, bring prints and anything like that that you might wanna sell or trade. There are cats coming from all over the world, so this year might be kinda hectic, but we're normally a very chill bunch and we get together a lot.

I don't know if you or James are as big into the toys as we are, but hopefully y'all get something outta hanging out here.

I'm gonna need somewhere to crash afterwards... my plan is to go from Potsdam to Albany on Friday, and then drive to the Summit on Saturday morning, stay over, and drive back on Sunday... loooong driving weekend.

My biggest obstacle right now is transportation. I'm gonna need a ride from the airport and a ride back sunday morning. Which will really suck for whoever with a hangover takes on that burden. If a cab ride isn't totally insane I may have to go that route.

*edit Or if everyone is planning to stay up all night, I can just catch a flight around 5am.

servbot30 Wrote:
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> My biggest obstacle right now is transportation.
> I'm gonna need a ride from the airport and a ride
> back sunday morning. Which will really suck for
> whoever with a hangover takes on that burden. If a
> cab ride isn't totally insane I may have to go
> that route.
>
> *edit Or if everyone is planning to stay up all
> night, I can just catch a flight around 5am.

I live a 5 min walk to the airport, you can catch a ride with us, if need be. I wont be back from Germany until the day of I think, but i will forward you my info .

I wanted to mention to everybody, that I have been speaking with a good friend who is a film maker and, I have convinced him to make the Summit into a documentary about the vintage Japanese toy culture. I have spoken with the powers that be about this, and gotten the go ahead, but wanted to let everyone know they can certainly be involved as little or as much as they want, but there will be a guy filming the event. We will also be considering a "King of Kong" style interview set up, one on one, and would love for people to be a part of it. I feel this could be a great potential film project. Logistics and what not to be worked out at the summit. Whatever releases that need to be signed and questions answered. This is going to be the best summit yet everyone.

josh fraser Wrote:
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> I wanted to mention to everybody, that I have been
> speaking with a good friend who is a film maker
> and, I have convinced him to make the Summit into
> a documentary about the vintage Japanese toy
> culture. I have spoken with the powers that be
> about this, and gotten the go ahead, but wanted to
> let everyone know they can certainly be involved
> as little or as much as they want, but there will
> be a guy filming the event. We will also be
> considering a "King of Kong" style interview set
> up, one on one, and would love for people to be a
> part of it. I feel this could be a great potential
> film project. Logistics and what not to be worked
> out at the summit. Whatever releases that need to
> be signed and questions answered. This is going to
> be the best summit yet everyone.

I actually want to do individual interviews, but keep in mind as much as I want this to be fun ,I think we should take it seriously enough to try to make a sincere snapshot into our world. It is pretty varied and interesting to me and others, and the community that has sprung up over the years among the various sites , and the real friendships that have occurred in real life and on the web in the past decade really offsets the obsessive and cliche trappings of movies about collectors. I think it could be entertaining to the general public without being a car crash of shut ins who collect toys and sit at home in their underwear on ebay on a friday night.

So apparently there are no flights out of Berlin Friday night the 19th. My design presentation is ending at 2pm Friday So I am literally going to be coming from the airport as my flight gets in at 1pm from Logan and I will drive over after. So I wont be there until 2pm. Though I need to send the film guy over earlier.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;